Editing Timeline of historic inventions (section)

====1900s====
* '''1900:''' The first [[Zeppelin]] is designed by [[Theodor Kober]].
* '''1901:''' The first motorized cleaner using suction, a powered "[[vacuum cleaner]]", is patented independently by [[Hubert Cecil Booth]] and [[David T. Kenney]].<ref>Gantz, Carroll (21 September 2012). The Vacuum Cleaner: A History. McFarland. p. 49</ref>
* '''1903:''' The first successful [[gas turbine]] is invented by [[Ægidius Elling]].
* '''1903:''' Édouard Bénédictus invents [[laminated glass]].
* '''1903:''' First sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight achieved by an [[airplane]] flown at [[Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]] by [[Orville and Wilbur Wright]]. See [[Claims to the first powered flight]].
* '''1904:''' The [[Fleming valve]], the first [[vacuum tube]] and [[diode]], is invented by [[John Ambrose Fleming]].
* '''1907:''' The first free flight of a rotary-wing aircraft is carried out by [[Paul Cornu]].
* '''1907:''' [[Leo Baekeland]] invents [[bakelite]],  the first [[plastic]] made from synthetic components.
* '''1907:''' The tuyères thermopropulsives<ref name="Peter">Peter O. K. Krehl (24 Sep 2008) [https://books.google.com/books?id=PmuqCHDC3pwC&q=patent+for+ramjet+1908+Lorin History of Shock Waves, Explosions and Impact: A Chronological and Biographical Reference], [https://books.google.com/books?id=PmuqCHDC3pwC&dq=patent+for+ramjet+1908+Lorin&pg=PA443 p.443], Springer Science & Business Media, {{ISBN|3540304215}}, {{ISBN|9783540304210}}, accessed 7 July 2019</ref> after 1945 ([[:fr:Maurice Roy (professeur)|Maurice Roy (fr)]]) known as the ''statoreacteur''<ref name="Peter" /><ref>[https://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/personnage/Lorin/126530 Personnage] ''[[Grand Larousse encyclopédique|Larousse]]'', accessed 7 July 2019</ref> ''a combustion subsonique'' (the [[ramjet]])<ref>Anthony Roux (2 July 2009) [http://oatao.univ-toulouse.fr/7859/1/roux1.pdf Simulation aux Grandes Echelles d'un statoréacteur], p.15, [[University of Toulouse]], "...La propulsion par statoreacteur a été inventée par le francais [[:fr:René Lorin|René Lorin]] en 1907 et decrite pour la ´
premiere fois dans la revue ` [[L'Aérophile|l'aerophile]] ´ dans un article intitule "Propulseur par reaction directe"...", accessed 7 July 2019</ref> – [[René Lorin|R. Lorin]]<ref name="Lorin">[https://www.dmg-lib.org/dmglib/main/portal.jsp?mainNaviState=browsen.biogr.viewer&id=24306004 Lorin, René (1877–1933)], Digital Mechanism and Gear Library, [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hans-von-Ohain-Elegance-Library/dp/1563475200 first contact for: "1913 – Lorin" (Margaret Connor)] obtained via [[search criteria]] (google): [https://www.google.com/search?q=discovery+of+scramjet+Frank+Whittle&ei=0DUiXbqnB9yBhbIPh4uqIA&start=40&sa=N&ved=0ahUKEwi6z_uMtKPjAhXcQEEAHYeFCgQ4HhDw0wMIhwE&biw=1920&bih=969 "discovery of scramjet Frank Whittle"], accessed 7 July 2019</ref><ref>R. Lorin (15 May 1913) – [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6552332d/f237.image de la turbine a gaz au propulseur a reaction], pp.229–230, [[L'Aérophile]]; [[BnF|BnF Gallica]], accessed 7 July 2019</ref><ref>Michael G. Smith (1 December 2014) — [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xtm5BAAAQBAJ&q=type+of+engine+proposed+by+Lorin+in+1908 Rockets and Revolution: A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight], [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xtm5BAAAQBAJ&dq=type+of+engine+proposed+by+Lorin+in+1908&pg=PT72 7th page of Chapter 3], [[University of Nebraska Press]], {{ISBN|0803286546}}, {{ISBN|9780803286542}}, accessed 7 July 2019</ref>
* '''1908:''' [[Cellophane]] is invented by [[Jacques E. Brandenberger]].
* '''1909:''' [[Fritz Haber]] invents the [[Haber process]].
* '''1909:''' The first instantaneous transmission of images, or [[television]] broadcast, is carried out by [[Georges Rignoux]] and A. Fournier.